setting cpu share to 1 causes hangs, as reported in:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9779
as the default share is 1024, the values of 0 and 1 can indeed
cause problems. Limit it to 2 or higher values.
These values can only be set by the root user - but still it
makes sense to protect against nonsensical values.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The show_task function invoked by sysrq-t et al displays the
pid and parent's pid of each task. It seems more useful to
show the actual process hierarchy here than who is using
ptrace on each process.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Some services (e.g. sched_setscheduler(), rt_mutex_setprio() and
sched_move_task()) must handle a given task differently in case it's the
'rq->curr' task on its run-queue. The task_running() interface is not
suitable for determining such tasks for platforms with one of the
following options:
#define __ARCH_WANT_UNLOCKED_CTXSW
#define __ARCH_WANT_INTERRUPTS_ON_CTXSW
Due to the fact that it makes use of 'p->oncpu == 1' as a criterion but
such a task is not necessarily 'rq->curr'.
The detailed explanation is available here:
https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/containers/2007-December/009262.html
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Tested-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
some platforms have sched_clock() implementations that cannot be called
very early during wakeup. If it's called it might hang or crash in hard
to debug ways. So only call update_rq_clock() [which calls sched_clock()]
if sched_init() has already been called. (rq->idle is NULL before the
scheduler is initialized.)
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
style cleanup of various changes that were done recently.
no code changed:
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23680 2542 28 26250 668a sched.o.after
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino reported that sched_rr_get_interval()
crashes for SCHED_OTHER tasks that are on an idle runqueue.
The fix is to return a 0 timeslice for tasks that are on an idle
runqueue. (and which are not running, obviously)
this also shrinks the code a bit:
text data bss dec hex filename
47903 3934 336 52173 cbcd sched.o.before
47885 3934 336 52155 cbbb sched.o.after
Reported-by: Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino <lcapitulino@mandriva.com.br>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Commit cfb5285660 removed a useful feature for
us, which provided a cpu accounting resource controller. This feature would be
useful if someone wants to group tasks only for accounting purpose and doesnt
really want to exercise any control over their cpu consumption.
The patch below reintroduces the feature. It is based on Paul Menage's
original patch (Commit 62d0df6406), with
these differences:
- Removed load average information. I felt it needs more thought (esp
to deal with SMP and virtualized platforms) and can be added for
2.6.25 after more discussions.
- Convert group cpu usage to be nanosecond accurate (as rest of the cfs
stats are) and invoke cpuacct_charge() from the respective scheduler
classes
- Make accounting scalable on SMP systems by splitting the usage
counter to be per-cpu
- Move the code from kernel/cpu_acct.c to kernel/sched.c (since the
code is not big enough to warrant a new file and also this rightly
needs to live inside the scheduler. Also things like accessing
rq->lock while reading cpu usage becomes easier if the code lived in
kernel/sched.c)
The patch also modifies the cpu controller not to provide the same accounting
information.
Tested-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested the patches on top of 2.6.24-rc3. The patches work fine. Ran
some simple tests like cpuspin (spin on the cpu), ran several tasks in
the same group and timed them. Compared their time stamps with
cpuacct.usage.
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
cpu_down() code is ok wrt sched_idle_next() placing the 'idle' task not
at the beginning of the queue.
So get rid of activate_idle_task() and make use of activate_task() instead.
It is the same as activate_task(), except for the update_rq_clock(rq) call
that is redundant.
Code size goes down:
text data bss dec hex filename
47853 3934 336 52123 cb9b sched.o.before
47828 3934 336 52098 cb82 sched.o.after
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Grant Wilson has reported rare SCHED_FAIR_USER crashes on his quad-core
system, which crashes can only be explained via runqueue corruption.
there is a narrow SMP race in __set_task_cpu(): after ->cpu is set up to
a new value, task_rq_lock(p, ...) can be successfuly executed on another
CPU. We must ensure that updates of per-task data have been completed by
this moment.
this bug has been hiding in the Linux scheduler for an eternity (we never
had any explicit barrier for task->cpu in set_task_cpu() - so the bug was
introduced in 2.5.1), but only became visible via set_task_cfs_rq() being
accidentally put after the task->cpu update. It also probably needs a
sufficiently out-of-order CPU to trigger.
Reported-by: Grant Wilson <grant.wilson@zen.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Suppose that the SCHED_FIFO task does
switch_uid(new_user);
Now, p->se.cfs_rq and p->se.parent both point into the old
user_struct->tg because sched_move_task() doesn't call set_task_cfs_rq()
for !fair_sched_class case.
Suppose that old user_struct/task_group is freed/reused, and the task
does
sched_setscheduler(SCHED_NORMAL);
__setscheduler() sets fair_sched_class, but doesn't update
->se.cfs_rq/parent which point to the freed memory.
This means that check_preempt_wakeup() doing
while (!is_same_group(se, pse)) {
se = parent_entity(se);
pse = parent_entity(pse);
}
may OOPS in a similar way if rq->curr or p did something like above.
Perhaps we need something like the patch below, note that
__setscheduler() can't do set_task_cfs_rq().
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Currently the scheduler checks for PF_VCPU to decide if this timeslice
has to be accounted as guest time. On s390 host interrupts are not
disabled during guest execution. This causes theses interrupts to be
accounted as guest time if CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING is set. Solution
is to check if an interrupt triggered account_system_time. As the tick
is timer interrupt based, we have to subtract hardirq_offset.
I tested the patch on s390 with CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING and on
x86_64. Seems to work.
CC: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
CC: Laurent Vivier <Laurent.Vivier@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Revert 62d0df6406.
This was originally intended as a simple initial example of how to create a
control groups subsystem; it wasn't intended for mainline, but I didn't make
this clear enough to Andrew.
The CFS cgroup subsystem now has better functionality for the per-cgroup usage
accounting (based directly on CFS stats) than the "usage" status file in this
patch, and the "load" status file is rather simplistic - although having a
per-cgroup load average report would be a useful feature, I don't believe this
patch actually provides it. If it gets into the final 2.6.24 we'd probably
have to support this interface for ever.
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch adds a proper prototype for migration_init() in
include/linux/sched.h
Since there's no point in always returning 0 to a caller that doesn't check
the return value it also changes the function to return void.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
SMP balancing is done with IRQs disabled and can iterate the full rq.
When rqs are large this can cause large irq-latencies. Limit the nr of
iterations on each run.
This fixes a scheduling latency regression reported by the -rt folks.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Tested-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
remove PREEMPT_RESTRICT. (this is a separate commit so that any
regression related to the removal itself is bisectable)
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
PREEMPT_RESTRICT was a method aimed at reducing the amount of wakeup
related preemption. It has a disadvantage though, it can prevent
legitimate wakeups if a task is 'unlucky' to be hit too early by a tick
that clears peer_preempt.
Now that the wakeup preemption has been cleaned up we dont seem to have
excessive preemptions anymore, so this feature can be turned off. (and
removed in the next patch)
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
1) hardcoded 1000000000 value is used five times in places where
NSEC_PER_SEC might be more readable.
2) A conversion from nsec to msec uses the hardcoded 1000000 value,
which is a candidate for NSEC_PER_MSEC.
no code changed:
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44359 3326 36 47721 ba69 sched.o.before
44359 3326 36 47721 ba69 sched.o.after
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Yanmin Zhang reported an aim7 regression and bisected it down to:
| commit 38ad464d41
| Author: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| Date: Mon Oct 15 17:00:02 2007 +0200
|
| sched: uniform tunings
|
| use the same defaults on both UP and SMP.
fix this by reintroducing similar SMP tunings again. This resolves
the regression.
(also update the comments to match the ilog2(nr_cpus) tuning effect)
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Adds a cpu.usage file to the CFS cgroup that reports CPU usage in
milliseconds for that cgroup's tasks
[ mingo@elte.hu: style cleanups. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Peter Zijlstra noticed that the rcu_head object need not be present
in every cfs_rq of a group. Move it to the task_group structure
instead.
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This patch:
commit 9b5b77512d
Author: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Mon Oct 15 17:00:09 2007 +0200
sched: clean up code under CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
Introduced an assumption of the existence of CPU0 via this line
cfs_rq = tg->cfs_rq[0];
If you have no CPU0, that will be NULL. The fix seems to be just to
take whatever cfs_rq queue comes out of the for_each_possible_cpu()
loop, since they're all equally good for the destruction operation.
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
At the moment, a lot of load balancing code that is irrelevant to non
SMP systems gets included during non SMP builds.
This patch addresses this issue and reduces the binary size on non
SMP systems:
text data bss dec hex filename
10983 28 1192 12203 2fab sched.o.before
10739 28 1192 11959 2eb7 sched.o.after
Signed-off-by: Peter Williams <pwil3058@bigpond.net.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
At the moment, balance_tasks() provides low level functionality for both
move_tasks() and move_one_task() (indirectly) via the load_balance()
function (in the sched_class interface) which also provides dual
functionality. This dual functionality complicates the interfaces and
internal mechanisms and makes the run time overhead of operations that
are called with two run queue locks held.
This patch addresses this issue and reduces the overhead of these
operations.
Signed-off-by: Peter Williams <pwil3058@bigpond.net.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
- replace "cont" with "cgrp" in a few places in the CFS cgroup code,
- use write_uint rather than write for cpu.shares write function
Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Acked-by : Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
A full register dump along with stack backtrace would make the
"scheduling while atomic" message more helpful. Use show_regs() instead
of dump_stack() for this. We already know we're atomic in here (that is
why this function was called) so show_regs()'s atomicity expectations
are guaranteed.
Also, modify the output of the "BUG: scheduling while atomic:" header a
bit to keep task->comm and task->pid together and preempt_count() after
them.
Signed-off-by: Satyam Sharma <satyam@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
clean up sched_domain_debug().
this also shrinks the code a bit:
text data bss dec hex filename
50474 4306 480 55260 d7dc sched.o.before
50404 4306 480 55190 d796 sched.o.after
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Jeff Dike noticed that wait_for_completion_interruptible()'s prototype
had a mismatched fastcall.
Fix this by removing the fastcall attributes from all the completion APIs.
Found-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
commit 029190c515 (cpuset
sched_load_balance flag) was not tested SCHED_DEBUG enabled as
committed as it dereferences NULL when used and it reordered
the sysctl registration to cause it to never show any domains
or their tunables.
Fixes:
1) restore arch_init_sched_domains ordering
we can't walk the domains before we build them
presently we register cpus with empty directories (no domain
directories or files).
2) make unregister_sched_domain_sysctl do nothing when already unregistered
detach_destroy_domains is now called one set of cpus at a time
unregister_syctl dereferences NULL if called with a null.
While the the function would always dereference null if called
twice, in the previous code it was always called once and then
was followed a register. So only the hidden bug of the
sysctl_root_table not being allocated followed by an attempt to
free it would have shown the error.
3) always call unregister and register in partition_sched_domains
The code is "smart" about unregistering only needed domains.
Since we aren't guaranteed any calls to unregister, always
unregister. Without calling register on the way out we
will not have a table or any sysctl tree.
4) warn if register is called without unregistering
The previous table memory is lost, leaving pointers to the
later freed memory in sysctl and leaking the memory of the
tables.
Before this patch on a 2-core 4-thread box compiled for SMT and NUMA,
the domains appear empty (there are actually 3 levels per cpu). And as
soon as two domains a null pointer is dereferenced (unreliable in this
case is stack garbage):
bu19a:~# ls -R /proc/sys/kernel/sched_domain/
/proc/sys/kernel/sched_domain/:
cpu0 cpu1 cpu2 cpu3
/proc/sys/kernel/sched_domain/cpu0:
/proc/sys/kernel/sched_domain/cpu1:
/proc/sys/kernel/sched_domain/cpu2:
/proc/sys/kernel/sched_domain/cpu3:
bu19a:~# mkdir /dev/cpuset
bu19a:~# mount -tcpuset cpuset /dev/cpuset/
bu19a:~# cd /dev/cpuset/
bu19a:/dev/cpuset# echo 0 > sched_load_balance
bu19a:/dev/cpuset# mkdir one
bu19a:/dev/cpuset# echo 1 > one/cpus
bu19a:/dev/cpuset# echo 0 > one/sched_load_balance
Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address 0x00000018
Faulting instruction address: 0xc00000000006b608
NIP: c00000000006b608 LR: c00000000006b604 CTR: 0000000000000000
REGS: c000000018d973f0 TRAP: 0300 Not tainted (2.6.23-bml)
MSR: 9000000000009032 <EE,ME,IR,DR> CR: 28242442 XER: 00000000
DAR: 0000000000000018, DSISR: 0000000040000000
TASK = c00000001912e340[1987] 'bash' THREAD: c000000018d94000 CPU: 2
..
NIP [c00000000006b608] .unregister_sysctl_table+0x38/0x110
LR [c00000000006b604] .unregister_sysctl_table+0x34/0x110
Call Trace:
[c000000018d97670] [c000000007017270] 0xc000000007017270 (unreliable)
[c000000018d97720] [c000000000058710] .detach_destroy_domains+0x30/0xb0
[c000000018d977b0] [c00000000005cf1c] .partition_sched_domains+0x1bc/0x230
[c000000018d97870] [c00000000009fdc4] .rebuild_sched_domains+0xb4/0x4c0
[c000000018d97970] [c0000000000a02e8] .update_flag+0x118/0x170
[c000000018d97a80] [c0000000000a1768] .cpuset_common_file_write+0x568/0x820
[c000000018d97c00] [c00000000009d95c] .cgroup_file_write+0x7c/0x180
[c000000018d97cf0] [c0000000000e76b8] .vfs_write+0xe8/0x1b0
[c000000018d97d90] [c0000000000e810c] .sys_write+0x4c/0x90
[c000000018d97e30] [c00000000000852c] syscall_exit+0x0/0x40
Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
KVM clears it by itself now, and for s390 this is plain wrong.
Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <Laurent.Vivier@bull.net>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Fix the various misspellings of "system", controller", "interrupt" and
"[un]necessary".
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Enable "cgroup" (formerly containers) based fair group scheduling. This
will let administrator create arbitrary groups of tasks (using "cgroup"
pseudo filesystem) and control their cpu bandwidth usage.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix cpp condition]
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
When a cpu is disabled, move_task_off_dead_cpu() is called for tasks that have
been running on that cpu.
Currently, such a task is migrated:
1) to any cpu on the same node as the disabled cpu, which is both online
and among that task's cpus_allowed
2) to any cpu which is both online and among that task's cpus_allowed
It is typical of a multithreaded application running on a large NUMA system to
have its tasks confined to a cpuset so as to cluster them near the memory that
they share. Furthermore, it is typical to explicitly place such a task on a
specific cpu in that cpuset. And in that case the task's cpus_allowed
includes only a single cpu.
This patch would insert a preference to migrate such a task to some cpu within
its cpuset (and set its cpus_allowed to its entire cpuset).
With this patch, migrate the task to:
1) to any cpu on the same node as the disabled cpu, which is both online
and among that task's cpus_allowed
2) to any online cpu within the task's cpuset
3) to any cpu which is both online and among that task's cpus_allowed
In order to do this, move_task_off_dead_cpu() must make a call to
cpuset_cpus_allowed_locked(), a new subset of cpuset_cpus_allowed(), that will
not block. (name change - per Oleg's suggestion)
Calls are made to cpuset_lock() and cpuset_unlock() in migration_call() to set
the cpuset mutex during the whole migrate_live_tasks() and
migrate_dead_tasks() procedure.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
[pj@sgi.com: Fix indentation and spacing]
Signed-off-by: Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The task_struct->pid member is going to be deprecated, so start
using the helpers (task_pid_nr/task_pid_vnr/task_pid_nr_ns) in
the kernel.
The first thing to start with is the pid, printed to dmesg - in
this case we may safely use task_pid_nr(). Besides, printks produce
more (much more) than a half of all the explicit pid usage.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: git-drm went and changed lots of stuff]
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
tsk->exit_state can only be 0, EXIT_ZOMBIE, or EXIT_DEAD. A non-zero test
is the same as tsk->exit_state & (EXIT_ZOMBIE | EXIT_DEAD), so just testing
tsk->exit_state is sufficient.
Signed-off-by: Eugene Teo <eugeneteo@kernel.sg>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cause writes to cpuset "cpus" file to update cpus_allowed for member tasks:
- collect batches of tasks under tasklist_lock and then call
set_cpus_allowed() on them outside the lock (since this can sleep).
- add a simple generic priority heap type to allow efficient collection
of batches of tasks to be processed without duplicating or missing any
tasks in subsequent batches.
- make "cpus" file update a no-op if the mask hasn't changed
- fix race between update_cpumask() and sched_setaffinity() by making
sched_setaffinity() post-check that it's not running on any cpus outside
cpuset_cpus_allowed().
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add a new per-cpuset flag called 'sched_load_balance'.
When enabled in a cpuset (the default value) it tells the kernel scheduler
that the scheduler should provide the normal load balancing on the CPUs in
that cpuset, sometimes moving tasks from one CPU to a second CPU if the
second CPU is less loaded and if that task is allowed to run there.
When disabled (write "0" to the file) then it tells the kernel scheduler
that load balancing is not required for the CPUs in that cpuset.
Now even if this flag is disabled for some cpuset, the kernel may still
have to load balance some or all the CPUs in that cpuset, if some
overlapping cpuset has its sched_load_balance flag enabled.
If there are some CPUs that are not in any cpuset whose sched_load_balance
flag is enabled, the kernel scheduler will not load balance tasks to those
CPUs.
Moreover the kernel will partition the 'sched domains' (non-overlapping
sets of CPUs over which load balancing is attempted) into the finest
granularity partition that it can find, while still keeping any two CPUs
that are in the same shed_load_balance enabled cpuset in the same element
of the partition.
This serves two purposes:
1) It provides a mechanism for real time isolation of some CPUs, and
2) it can be used to improve performance on systems with many CPUs
by supporting configurations in which load balancing is not done
across all CPUs at once, but rather only done in several smaller
disjoint sets of CPUs.
This mechanism replaces the earlier overloading of the per-cpuset
flag 'cpu_exclusive', which overloading was removed in an earlier
patch: cpuset-remove-sched-domain-hooks-from-cpusets
See further the Documentation and comments in the code itself.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: don't be weird]
Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The find_task_by_something is a set of macros are used to find task by pid
depending on what kind of pid is proposed - global or virtual one. All of
them are wrappers above the most generic one - find_task_by_pid_type_ns() -
and just substitute some args for it.
It turned out, that dereferencing the current->nsproxy->pid_ns construction
and pushing one more argument on the stack inline cause kernel text size to
grow.
This patch moves all this stuff out-of-line into kernel/pid.c. Together
with the next patch it saves a bit less than 400 bytes from the .text
section.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This is the largest patch in the set. Make all (I hope) the places where
the pid is shown to or get from user operate on the virtual pids.
The idea is:
- all in-kernel data structures must store either struct pid itself
or the pid's global nr, obtained with pid_nr() call;
- when seeking the task from kernel code with the stored id one
should use find_task_by_pid() call that works with global pids;
- when showing pid's numerical value to the user the virtual one
should be used, but however when one shows task's pid outside this
task's namespace the global one is to be used;
- when getting the pid from userspace one need to consider this as
the virtual one and use appropriate task/pid-searching functions.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: nuther build fix]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: yet nuther build fix]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove unneeded casts]
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@openvz.org>
Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This example demonstrates how to use the generic cgroup subsystem for a
simple resource tracker that counts, for the processes in a cgroup, the
total CPU time used and the %CPU used in the last complete 10 second interval.
Portions contributed by Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This adds items to the taststats struct to account for user and system
time based on scaling the CPU frequency and instruction issue rates.
Adds account_(user|system)_time_scaled callbacks which architectures
can use to account for time using this mechanism.
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Jay Lan <jlan@engr.sgi.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
schedstat is useful in investigating CPU scheduler behavior. Ideally,
I think it is beneficial to have it on all the time. However, the
cost of turning it on in production system is quite high, largely due
to number of events it collects and also due to its large memory
footprint.
Most of the fields probably don't need to be full 64-bit on 64-bit
arch. Rolling over 4 billion events will most like take a long time
and user space tool can be made to accommodate that. I'm proposing
kernel to cut back most of variable width on 64-bit system. (note,
the following patch doesn't affect 32-bit system).
Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenchen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
printk: add the KERN_CONT annotation (which is empty string but via
which checkpatch.pl can notice that the lacking KERN_ level is fine).
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
